{"id":489,"date":"2017-02-08T02:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2017-03-08T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:41:11","slug":"we-are-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/we-are-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"We are in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So currently I am writing from a extremely bumpy train to Dong Hoi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We started our trip in Tai Pei, then we left for Vietnam. Since leaving Tai Pei we have been to Saigon and Hoi An and are on our way to Dong Hoi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here&#8217;s a list of how long we&#8217;ve been were we&#8217;ve been,<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tai Pei: &#8216;Bout a week<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Saigon: &#8216;Bout two weeks<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hoi An: &#8216;Bout a week<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tai Pei, Arrival day, We finally arrived after 24 hours of traveling, we hailed a cab (while extremely jet lagged), and started a 45 minute car ride. We got to our VRBO and hit the hay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tai Pei Highlights,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Food\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Starting Harry Potter (Second time)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally Recovering from jet lag<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elephant mountain\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finding stuff using the MRT<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Daan park<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Saigon, Arrival day, We get off a 3 hour flight a go to check out the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Saigon Highlights,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finished Harry Potter (All of them)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Cu Chi tunnels\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Imperial palace<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Sushi<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Cooking Class<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Noir<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Saigon to Hoi An, We took the 17 hour night train. It was quite fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hoi An Highlights,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beach\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beach\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beach<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Did I mention beach?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">First half of the 20 mile bike tour<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Wild Beach<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Soul Kitchen<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beach<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So currently I am writing from a extremely bumpy train to Dong Hoi.\u00a0 We started our trip in Tai Pei, then we left for Vietnam. Since leaving Tai Pei we have been to Saigon and Hoi An and are on our way to Dong Hoi.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a list of how long we&#8217;ve been were we&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/we-are-in-asia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cadens-corner","7":"category-taiwan","8":"category-vietnam","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8k10v-7T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":539,"url":"http:\/\/passportsnothallpasses.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/spelunking-in-dong-hoi\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":0},"title":"Spelunking in Dong Hoi","author":"Micha Hooper","date":"March 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We took the (day) train from Da Nang to Dong Hoi to check out some fairly recently discovered caves. \u00a0The train was pretty slow, but we managed to get there after about six looooooooooooong hours. \u00a0The views were amazing though and made the journey worth it. 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